I personally lost two friends and former colleagues recently that these list probably wants to know about.

I  just heard from Lynne Jolitz, Bill's wife.  It seems he passed away about a month ago after a long illness.   Most of you know he was the original force behind the BSD 386 development.   I know little more than what I have just reported at this time, but will pass on any info as I learn it. 

Also in other news, not Unix related, but PDP-11 and the computer graphics world.  We lost Jack Burness a few weeks ago.  Jack was the author of the original "Moonlander" for the PDP-11 with which many of us wasted many hours trying to pick up "a Big Mac with fries" at "Mare Assabet."  [Note: There was no WWW/Wikipedia in those days to find it, but to look up Assabet River, so many people naively thought it was a legitimate lunar landmark - its the River that the DEC Maynard bldg sits]. He was a larger than life person [his joke's mailing list was a whos-who of the computer industry - it was an honor to be on it]. We all have a passel of stories about Jack.  I have written separately about Jack a number of times and if you have never looked at the source to Moonlander, you own it yourself to read it.   Remember he wrote it as a throw-away demo for the GT-40 for trade show [his integer transcendental funcs are quite instructive].   As one of the folks on the Masscomp Alumni list put it, 'Jack was someone that just does not deserve to die.'

This is the announcement Maureen published in the DEC Alumni list.